Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8398.151 · Subchapter D. MUNICIPAL ANNEXATION
ANNEXATION BY MUNICIPALITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governing body of a municipality that plans to annex all or part of the district first must adopt a resolution of intention to annex all or part of the district and transmit that resolution to the district and the following districts:
(1) Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 3;
(2) Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 4;
(3) Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 5;
(4) Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 7;
(5) Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 8;
(6) Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 9; and
(7) Travis County Water Control and Improvement District No. 19.
(b) On receipt of a resolution described by Subsection (a), the district and each of the districts listed in Subsection (a) shall call an election to be held on the next uniform election date on the question of whether the annexation should be authorized.
(c) The municipality may annex the territory described in the resolution only if a majority of the total number of voters voting in all of the districts' elections vote in favor of authorizing the annexation.
(d) The municipality seeking annexation shall pay the costs of the elections held under this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 112 (S.B. 1026), Sec. 1.03, eff. April 1, 2015.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 6 (S.B. 6), Sec. 47, eff. December 1, 2017.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.8398.htm
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- sha256 54ac8df365e19a60d456132ae6d8a6e14ee3852fd7ce133b493b6cf5af90b082
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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